How High Do The Numbered Streets In Your City Go?

[roadfro]

Las Vegas, NV goes up to 30th Street, and has both a Main Street and a 1st Street.  On this numbered grid, 2nd St was renamed Casino Center Blvd, 5th St was renamed Las Vegas Blvd (near downtown), Maryland Pkwy follows most of the 12th St alignment, and Eastern Ave runs along portions of what is/was 25th St.

Reno, NV has numbered streets that reach 15th Street, although the numbers go up to 17 unofficially.  The University of Nevada, Reno signs some of its roadways as 15th, 16th, and 17th Streets, but these are not city streets.  4th Street has the distinction of being old US 40, while parts of Interstate 80 near downtown run right along 8th Street (or where 8th should be).

Sparks, NV goes up to 22nd Street, although these run north/south whereas Reno's numbered streets are east/west.  In the Sparks grid, 8th St was renamed Pyramid Way (SR 445) and Rock Blvd runs along parts of the 15th and 17th St alignments.

Sparks also has lettered streets, ranging from A Street to P Street.  Letters Q through T are assigned to Quail St, Richards Way, Sawyer Way and Tasker Way instead of having individual letters.  Greenbrae Drive lies along what should be N Street, and what used to be B Street is now named Victorian Avenue and used to be old US 40.  Interstate 80 is adjacent to parts of A Street, with other parts of the freeway built on top of the former street.

[thenetwork]

Cleveland:

East side, I believe gets up to the East 360th-some range...
West Side only goes up as high as West 241st Street or so.

Odd factoid: West 130th Street is the longest numbered street in the Cleveland area...Running North/South some 20+ miles from Lorain Avenue in Cleveland to just east of I-71 Exit 222 @ SR-3.

[Urban Prairie Schooner]

Baton Rouge's main numbered sequence of north-south streets starts at 3rd and goes up to 49th (1st to 50th historically). Also there is another sequence in the Scotlandville area that follows east-west streets which begins at 68th and extends to 79th.

First Street was renamed Front Street and later River Road; Second Street was renamed Lafayette Street in 1825 to commemorate the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette that year. Fourth Street was originally called Church Street. Many of the numbered streets were given their current names in the 1920s when the city of BR rationalized its street names to eliminate naming duplications.

Major pet peeve of mine: A good many of the north-south numbered streets officially have a "North" prefix despite not having a corresponding "South" segment (since they do not extend south of North Blvd, or their logical extensions have different names). The only streets with a "South" segment are 10th-22nd excepting S. 13th which was renamed after Grambling football coach Eddie Robinson.

[Hellfighter]

In the city of Detroit, from 1st to 35th streets.

[wandering drive]

Let's see here, starting with Minneapolis, in the south, the E-W streets are numbered Xth St from 1 to 62 and then further south up to Rice County where it stops at 330th St.  North of Glenwood Ave, the N-S boundary, it goes up to 57th or so, and then through to Anoka county, stopping at 149th Ave.  However, on the east side of the Mississippi, the E-W numbers follow from a point originating in old Saint Anthony Falls, so 44th Ave N west of the Mississippi is parallel to 37th Ave NE on the east.   North of Minneapolis, the numbers extend to 421st Ave NW (west of Central Ave, that is) on the border of Isanti and Kanabec Counties.
With St. Paul, there are no numbers outside of the downtown area, but adjacent to the west, north, and south, the E-W streets start from I-94/Hudson Rd to 520th St in the south and 540th St in the north. 

Long explanation short: Three different numbering systems for E-W streets for the Twin Cities, the highest numbered street placed exactly 54 miles north of I-94. 

The winner in the area, though, goes to Pierce County, Wisconsin, who starts numbering their N-S streets on the eastern border and increases by 40 per mile compared to 10 per mile in the St. Paul enumeration.  So just north of Prescott, WI overlooking the Mississippi River lies 1323rd St.  I haven't checked, but I believe the house numbers in Pierce County have one less digit, so there are no six-digit addresses there as far as I know. 

[TheStranger]

In Sacramento, the easternmost street (north-south) is 88th Street (which is actually not in the city limits), though the contiguous grid only really lasts from 2nd near the river (Front being where 1st would be) all the way out to 65th or 66th.  31st Street is skipped as it was renamed Alhambra Boulevard (for a now-defunct theater) in the 1930s.

The numbered avenues begin just south of Broadway, in the northern part of the Land Park neighborhood; the southernmost number is 69th Avenue, a short residential route off of 24th Street in the Meadowview.

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San Francisco has two major numbered grids...

The avenues (which is another moniker for the Sunset and Richmond neighborhoods that use this grid) which begins at 2nd Avenue near Golden Gate Park (Arguello Boulevard being where 1st Avenue is) all the way to 48th Avenue (La Playa Street being the name for what would be 49th Avenue, near the ocean).

The numbered streets - which cover the South of Market, Potrero Hill, Noe Valley, China Basin and Mission neighborhoods - start with 1st Street in South of Market and end at 30th Street in the Mission; 3rd Street interestingly intersects most of the higher-numbered streets in the area as it becomes an out-of-grid major thoroughfare south past Pac Bell Park.

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The Oakland/Berkeley east-west numbered street grid starts at 2nd Street (the ostensible 1st Street being the Embarcadero) and ends at 67th Street a block or two south of Ashby Avenue.  Strangely enough, north of Ashby and west of San Pablo Avenue, Berekley has a north-south numbered street section of its own not related to the former, from 2nd (Eastshore Highway (the old US 40/Route 17) being where 1st would have been) to 10th.

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San Jose's north-south numbered streets start at 1st (a very long thoroughfare that includes parts of Route 82) and end at 34th, a block west of King Road.

[Big Dave]

I live in a small town.  I believe it goes up to 8th St.  They are all within a mile of one another, however.

[CL]

Salt Lake City (which actually belongs to the grid system of Salt Lake County) goes as high as around 16000 South south of Bluffdale (locals would call this 160th South, which would be 160 blocks south of Temple Square). However, in the north it only goes as high as 33rd North, west to 92nd West and east to around 40th East. Our system is incredibly easy to navigate, once you get the hang of it.

[golden eagle]

Jackson has no numbered streets.  Meridian and Hattiesburg have them, but I'm not sure how high they go (though it may be 40th Street, which serves as a dividing line between Forrest and Lamar counties).

[DBrim]

Numbered streets?  In Boston?  Ha.

[WillWeaverRVA]

Richmond has two sets of numbered streets - as I mentioned once in another thread, there is one set north of the James and another set south of it. The numbered streets in south Richmond were a holdover from when it was part of the city of Manchester (which merged with Richmond long ago).

North Richmond goes up to 39th Street (prefixed with north and south), and south Richmond goes up to 49th Street (prefixed with east and west, even though the streets run north-south for the most part).

[Bickendan]

I think I just found the highest numbered streets in the country: N 3000th Ave at E 3100th St, just southeast of Augusta, IL.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=East+1075th+Street,+Mendon,+IL&sll=45.254254,-94.353031&sspn=0.01867,0.038238&g=702nd+Avenue,+Kimball,+MN&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=E+1075th+St,+Mendon,+Adams,+Illinois+62351&ll=40.191365,-90.912209&spn=0.02026,0.038238&z=15

The odd thing about these is how rapidly they ascend. I'm thinking they moreless translate to 300th and 310th.

[Quillz]

The Palmdale/Lancaster area goes up to at least Ave. 120 or so. And in between those are Ave. A-S.

[NWI_Irish96]

The city of Indianapolis goes up to 96th street, but Hamilton county continues the numbering system all the way to 296th street.

[realjd]

Currently, I live in a city with no street grid, although nearby Indialantic, FL goes up to 14th. In Miami though, the highest I could find on Google Maps was SW 424th St.

I previously lived in Lafayette, IN. There the highest in the city grid was 36th St, and beyond that it was on the typical Indiana county numbering system in increments of 100.

[kj3400]

Baltimore goes up to 43rd St., but mind you we start at 20th St. I think they count the streets south of North Av.

[US71]

I once thought Ft Smith only went into the low 90's, but I recently discovered up to 106 in a remote, hoity toity part of town

[huskeroadgeek]

Lincoln is getting pretty close to getting into the triple digit streets. Those streets already exist outside the city limits-they go up to 190th street in the county.

What's interesting about the highest numbered streets question is that it has changed a lot in recent years in many places due to most rural roads now having names or numbers that used to not have any. Triple digit street numbers used to be seen only in large cities and counties. Now some mostly rural counties have triple digit road numbers depending on what number they choose to begin with.

[Brandon]

The highest numbered street in Chicagoland is 248th Avenue in western Will County.  However, the Chicago street numbering system based off State and Madison continues to the Will/Kendall and Will/Kankakee County lines.  248th Avenue is 31 miles west of State Street (8 blocks to the mile).

[Bickendan]

The Palmdale/Lancaster area goes up to at least Ave. 120 or so. And in between those are Ave. A-S.

Better than that. 253rd St, Ave Z-6.

[Tourian]

Birmingham goes up to 96th Street N

I could have sworn they used to go up a little over 100 like around the area above Gate City.

I guess 53rd Ave North is highest number that way.

EDIT: I guess they skip 97th, but I found a 98th and a 99th Street North via Mapquest.

[kurumi]

Hayward, CA has C street, which is 3 x 10⁸.

[agentsteel53]

Hayward, CA has C street, which is 3 x 10⁸.

c is just a constant.  In some measurement systems, c = 1.

[jemacedo9]

Philadelphia:  down by the airport goes up to 90th St for N/S streets.

In extreme North Phila, strangely, the E/W streets start up at 64th Ave and go up to 80th Ave.  OF course, there is no 14th St, that space is filled by Broad St.

[RustyK]

Near Seattle and in general in Washington, the streets are laid out in a grid where xx ST is E-W and xx AVE is N-S.  It also hinges on some center point -- a compass direction is very typically attached to the name - before the Aves (NW 136th Ave, for example) and after the Streets (122nd St SE, for example).  Names besides ST and AVE are not used much, and are typically used for minor streets.  For example, you'll have a 136th ST and a 136th PL right next to each other.  I particularly enjoy when the same-numbered roads meet:  in Kirkland, NE of Seattle, the intersection of NE 124th Ave and 124th St NE is not an insignificant intersection.  Explaining directions to folks that come from places where the "Ave" and "St" are typically dropped is a fun time.